Electric Vette breaks speed record

MOTOR AUTHORITY | Electric cars are increasingly becoming synonymous with performance, a point best illustrated by Genovation Cars’ new record-setting Corvette-based Genovation eXtreme Electric.

At a test conducted, fittingly, at NASA’s Shuttle Landing Facility at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, the GXE accelerated (rather quietly, we might add) to a top speed of 186.8 mph after one mile. Given a little more space, Genovation says the car will top 200 mph.

Certified by the International Mile Racing Association, the run bests a 177 mph sprint achieved last year in Texas by an electrified 1968 Ford Mustang.

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